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Technomadic Couple Answers Q’s about Living the Edited Life in RV

Last week, we showed a family living an edited rural life, showing that densely-packed, tiny-apartmented cities aren’t the only environments that support pared-down living. We ran across another...

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More Mobile Living: Video of Couple’s DIY 3 Story School Bus

This video from Fair Companies takes an extensive tour of Richard and Rachel’s school bus home. Unlike René Agredano and Jim Nelson’s mobile living we looked at yesterday, this project is decidedly...

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Your Own Terrestrial Spacecraft

Shipbuilders might know a thing or two about optimizing tiny spaces, but their skills pale in comparison to those of spacecraft engineers. There isn’t any other type of mobile home where space is so...

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Just Keep Truckin Home

We’ve covered a number of mobile homes here on LifeEdited, and we must confess a little judgment about this mode of living transport. While their interiors are always paragons of efficiency and clever...

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Life on the NYC Streets

To borrow the catchphrase of politician Jimmy McMillan, New York City’s rents are too damn high. As of last November, the median rent for Manhattan was $3100. Want to slum it in Brooklyn? That number...

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Superior Shelter From the Storm

Days after Hurricane Katrina, Michael McDaniel was grabbing a cup of coffee. Pondering how to build a better shelter for the countless displaced citizens, he had an idea: why not make a shelter that...

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Bicycle-Powered Nomadic Housing

Maybe it’s the cooling temperatures, or the fact this author has been hanging out at home too much as of late, but there’s been a ton of talk about nomadic living on this site as of late. Last week, we...

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In Praise of the Mobile Home Park (Don’t Call it a You Know What)

A recent NY Times article centered around Montauk Shores, a mobile home park on the far east end of Long Island, NY. Whereas many mobile home parks are paragons of low-cost living, Montauk Shores, with...

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Man Finds Clarity (and a Home) in Airstream Renovation

Few things initiate personal transformation like a good old fashion emotional crisis. And if we are to look at the experience of Jordan Menzel, there are few better vehicles for delivering that...

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Life is Either a Great Adventure or…You Know

When’s the last time you had a good adventure? Seen new places, met new people, encountered new situations? For some, it might be a recent occurrence, but the rest of us are clearing out the cobwebs of...

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It’s Your House on a Bike

We feature a number of homes that sit on internal combustion vehicles. Despite what you might think, these homes can be extremely green. First off, standard homes have fuel needs too, from heating hot...

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Three More for the Road

Many people think about stopping their workaday lives, downsizing and lightening their loads to support more adventure and freedom. But few people go through with it. We always have (valid) excuses....

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The Rise of the Minimalist Millionaire

Aside from its inherent space and energy efficiency, compact living–or rather the high density living that often accompanies it–has been credited as being a catalyst for innovation. In his book Triumph...

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Get Your Life on Track

I’ve covered more than my fair share of compact, mobile homes. More often than not, the mobility is expressed on pavement, whether the home is affixed to a bicycle, a truck chassis or being towed...

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It’s All About the Benjamin

There’s a subject in many of the posts I write about that is present but not always called out by name. The subject is money. Time and again, we read stories about people editing their lives, not just...

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Breakdowns, Adventure Guaranteed

About a year ago, I wrote about Foster Huntington, a twenty-something who ditched his corporate design career to become a full time van-dwelling nomad. Inspired by Tupac Shakur’s Thug Life tattoo,...

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Live, Work, Haul Lots of Stuff

When our stuff is stationary there’s no reason to get rid of it. The force of gravity can support the biggest mess from the worst hoarder. But when our stuff is put in motion, either supported by the...

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Living Small, Riding Free

We have posted about numerous folks who have traded stationary homes for RVs. People make this choice for a variety of reasons. They might want to see the world, live a more minimal existence, reduce...

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Are RVs a Good Solution to Affordable Urban Housing?

We’re ever on the lookout for creative ways of making cities denser and more affordable. One way of doing that is filling up unused land gaps with housing. And one super simple form of housing that can...

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Life is Either a Great Adventure or…You Know

When’s the last time you had a good adventure? Seen new places, met new people, encountered new situations? For some, it might be a recent occurrence, but the rest of us are clearing out the cobwebs of...

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